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Credit card fees are a weight on the economy, a tax that benefits only the rent seekers. This weight should be lifted as soon as possible.

Either by economic competition or by regulation.

For the competition angle to work, companies must be able to rewards customers for using payment solutions that circumvent the credit card fees.
I only answers calls from immediate family. If I get called by a friend I'm immediately suspicious of foul play. Except during big events. My friends only use calls to shout at each other that they are lost in a crowd.
> Limiting itself to reversible operations gives some mathematical niceties

What are those niceties, why is a reversible operation desirable in this context?
Bret Victor – The Future of Programming (2013) [video]
Last commit was 8 years ago. I don't think anyone gonna use it now.
An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride
"how fast would it have to spin for an object on the equator to be in orbit"

I think this is correct, but then it can be simply calculated knowing the escape velocity on Earth is 11.2 km/sec and the circumference is 40e3 km:

40e3 / 11.2 = 3571 seconds

Therefore it's the Earth span at one revolution per hour, objects at the equator would escape gravity... I'm not sure where is your error in your formula that leads you to a different response.
The VGA Attribute Controller Is Weird
Off the top of my head: (less career and more personal development)

1. Finite & Infinite Games, by James Carse

2. Flow, by Czikszentmihalyi

3. The evolving self, by Robert Kegan

4. Man's search for meaning, by Victor Frankl

5. A fine balance, by Rohinton Mistry (fiction)

6. Lila, by Robert Pirsig (fiction)
Most are quite aware. Desktop Mode is needed for certain tasks like installing additional software or browsing the web, and it's just KDE Plasma. Also you sometimes need to wrestle with Proton versions and some games with anticheat don't work in Proton, so the average Deck user is pretty aware of what they're running. There's a big culture of tweaking things to run better or use less battery or be more convenient (plugins to make changing game art easier, especially important for non-Steam games you add which have no art set by default).

I could be in a bubble, but it seems like even the less technical Deck owners can at least follow Reddit or YouTube tutorials (of which there are many) to do more advanced things on their Deck. Setting up emulators is one of the more common things people do.

The OS also comes up in comparisons to competing PC handhelds, as the marginally more powerful alternatives all seem to come with Windows and suffer in the UX department. Valve allegedly plans to release their current SteamOS version for others to use, but it hasn't happened yet. There are a couple third party recreations in the meantime that people put on these other devices themselves.
I think you understand the situation perfectly. I'm similarly at a loss to explain why anyone thinks it was ever a good idea to privatise, unless you're one of the few directly profiting from the situation.
I mean these private services are not really accountable either. Sure you can (maybe) sue them, but the damage they've caused is already done and the people responsible have long left and never held liable. The bandits have already stripped everything valuable and then the government (and by definition, you) are left to foot the bill.

This isn't to say a corrupt government can't do the same thing, but there's more incentives for officials at smaller leaner agencies to operate in the public benefit.
The Phoebus cartel isn't comparable, because incandescent lamps have an inherent tradeoff between lifespan and efficiency. Most of the output of an incandescent lamp is infrared. Running it hotter shifts it more into the visible spectrum, increasing lumens per watt, but also makes the filament fail sooner.

It's easier to sell long-life lamps than high-efficiency lamps (bulb failures are obvious, but few people had the test equipment to measure efficiency of individual bulbs). The cartel avoided competition on lifespan that would have wasted a lot of electricity.
I'm not saying Claude 3 and Gemini are better than GPT4 in every aspect, but those two models can at least perform addition on arbitrarily long numbers, meanwhile GPT4 struggles.
> Can this be combined with quantization?

It is in their TODO part in https://github.com/Infini-AI-Lab/Sequoia/tree/main
Well after this you can read termination shock...
I do not get it: if variance is too large, a random sample is very little representative of the mean. As simple as that?

Now the specific formula may be complicated. But otherwise I do not understand the “paradox”? Or am I missing something?
> I could clock Missile Command

I saw reentry vehicles doing their thing once in my life, and all I could think was that the flipping parallel lines in the sky looked way too much like melonfarming Missile Command.
Is there any difference though? The gas you get in your pipes is the service, it doesn't change at all no matter who your provider is. You could imagine a situation where your water/sever infrastructure was maintained by one company but the service is sold by a selection of providers, who then have an incentive to pressure the operator to provide a certain standard of service.
Is it me or is this paper basically missing all technical information?

I get that Therese proprietary technology, but if so, can we please not put this on arxiv and pretend it’s a scientific contribution?
Hash functions on integers, so if you want a fast integer hash for a set or map. If the functions diverge sufficiently it also provides fast hashes for a bloom filter.
Massive FUD/off-topic whining considering it’s already in nightly.

Yes, not everyone is as thrilled about the browser becoming an OS and both of the other players have pretty much declined to implement the standards chrome forced through.

Like yes if you let yourself be tied to proprietary chrome features you will probably be tied to chrome. It’s weird how the HN set embraces the internet explorer/activeX combo of the modern era so openly, to the extent of whining that others don’t implement it/are behind on compatibility - like yes, that’s the point of embrace/extend/extinguish and a quasi-proprietary standard, to provoke exactly your reaction.

I wonder if there is some equivalent to this on the social media of the time, was there some subset of users who really really loved activeX and would only use browsers that supported it? it’s what I need to do my banking, how could I use anything else!?
You're talking about a subjective preference as thought it's an objective absolute.

Personally I prefer how it is. If I want it in a separate tab then I'll middle click or ctrl/cmd+click. As far as I know there's no keyboard shortcut which forces a `target=_blank` links to open in the _same tab_ when I want that behaviour.

The one I can't stand is when sites override default behaviours so you can't do either
I know I’m comparing oranges to apples here as these functions are not well suited for cryptographic operations, but how does the measured “bias” affect cryptanalysis? Can someone familiar with differential cryptography explain if a hash function with a lower bias defeats cryptanalysis with lower rounds or with less compute? Will this thing help find better cryptographic hash functions?
Probably the case. I've just never had occasion to use AM so I've never looked for it.
Probably could set the seed and temperature and store these. Run with a few variations and keeping the best would probably work even better, at the expense of more computation.
What a fascinating article. It truly blows my mind just how advanced humans have become. When playing angry birds on an iPhone we tend to forget the insane amount of research, resources, and specialized expertise that has made all the modern tech world possible.

I’d also highly recommend the book Chip Wars by Chris Miller for anyone looking for a deeper dive into the history and current dilemmas of the semiconductor industry
Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good
I can't find a public copy of the recent versions of BS7666. The 2006 version had zero instances of the word 'apostrophe' so not sure what they think they are referencing.

BS 7666: 2006 is based upon an International Standard ISO 19112 Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers.
Neat Idea!

I was wondering, are there any security guarantees for the providers? Assume I have a small GPU cluster at home, if I rent out my GPUs, what sort of access should I accept the renters to have? Only GPU kernels would be sent to machine? Or will they have a limited permission user access on my cluster?

Also instead of having the operatos openning ports in their routers, were there any considers of adding them to a private network for a more seamless experience? (Nebula/headscale and the likes)
Why don’t you test it first with a small model on mnist or cifar?
Take with you a Librem 5 with kill switches for modem and WiF/BT. You can kill the camera/mic, too, if you don't need them.
Thanks for the kind words!

> Presumably, your server stores a registry of Device IDs and IPs to route messages?

Not IPs but Push API registration objects.

> What about replacing this with some sort of partitioned DHT to make it decentralized?

I guess this could be done but it's a task I can't tackle at this point.

> Also, the messages flow through your servers?

Yes but I don't store them. My API just dispatches the message to the recipient's push service. Which means the message exists on my server only in the form of an in-memory variable for several microseconds between being received and sent further.

> Would it be possible to set up WebSocket connections between the users instead, and how would that compare from a security model perspective?

This generally can't be done in a PWA. OS won't allow a persistent WebSocket to run in background.

Also, this would disclose too much information about a client to all the other clients. Currently, all I know about other clients is their Device IDs which are just random strings.
Google has several completely free services. I won’t name them because I’m superstitious that they will get shut down after I write this comment.

Google doesn’t shut down services because they are free. It shuts down services because they are unpopular at trillion dollar corporation scale. Stadia was paid and it got shut down too. Unfortunately, this leads to the second-order effect of people not using new Google services because they are afraid it will get shut down.
Every once in a while I'm struck by how magical some of our technology seems...
DuckDuckGo has browsers for android and windows that block ads by default.
> And the best way to verify a compiled binary is correctly compiled is to do the compilation. That's a trivial amount of work. Constructing a ZKP of the same is certainly more cost intensive.

This makes the assumption that you both have the source code and that the compiler is deterministic. With the latter one being not the case for (most?) modern compilers.
It is valid Rust... but only because it wraps everything in a proc macro.

Creusot does it in a different way using attributes, which IMO is a better approach because it means normal tooling works, though it does have much worse syntax.
When the code has to use ZKP's, there is an intrinsic overhead measured in orders of magnitude of CPU time. By avoiding the use of third parties, that overhead is eliminated.

So the question is, does this hypothetical entity with very precious data incur the extra orders of magnitude of compute time in oder to not maintain a rack in house, or do they just... maintain a rack. Keeping in mind, of course, that they already must maintain a rack in order for ZKP's to make any sense at all. So... do they add a server to their existing rack to handle the workload, or refactor their entire computation to use ZKP's, and incur several extra orders of magnitude of compute time, and outsource the work to a cloud service?
I mean this is implicit in back propagation, say, you need to store gradients anyway but if you get to a zero loss than you are just done.
Current LLMs will always have to deal with garbage in, garbage out, issues. Perhaps in the future the industry will shift left and whoever is guaranteeing the data accuracy/quality that feeds the models will become increasingly more powerful
> Bristow attributes blame to “massive underinvestment by private water companies who’ve failed to do their duty.” UK water services were privatized in 1989.

Yet another example of why essential services must be public. Privatisation for the sake of it is bad. Private companies will seek maximum profit and cutting costs, they don't care about anything else.
ZKP's are a large load, so this hypothetical is invalid. Also ZKPs require you to already have some amount of in house compute on an in house rack, or else who are you even protecting your data from? So the question is do you provision slightly more compute into the rack you're already managing, or incur orders of magnitude more CPU time expense and a complete refactoring of your business logic to use ZKP's in order to... have slightly fewer servers in your rack? The benefits are hard to even comprehend.
Not when you factor in everything that has to go into making something like wind power work. The problem is that it’s very unreliable, its output is wildly variable, from nothing to a lot.

Then there’s the efficiency that diminishes over time, and a much shorter life span.

Compared to stable output and 40-50 years of power generation. And much lower environment impact overall (especially compared to the power generation over its lifetime)
I think it is. But there are levels to learning and approaches that tech can take. Speaking as a Psychology of learning and Comp Sci graduate.

For a long time we have had the capability to use student learning record data to recommend optimal questions to maximise student grades in a given subject(adaptive learning); we've known the best exercises and methods to apply this with, like quizzes/active recall (see Roediger & Karpicke, 2006) and increasingly, made interfaces that keep people in the zone.

The problem is, such systems have 3 challenges compared to a human experienced tutor/small group teacher:*
- 1. It's not abstract. It can't identify misconceptions in your wrong answers like a human would and refocus new activities on these gaps. Doing this is very effective. I believe this is possible in the future, hence why I developed blurt mode, a learning exercise on my website Revision.ai which asks students to blurt content they have learned on a specific subject, rates their coverage and accuracy and most important identifies, clarifies and stores for future exercise content their knowledge gaps, by using AI tech to identify misconceptions in a way we could not do 4 years ago.
- 2. An app will never truly check up on you socially or with social expectations of appearing in real life like a tutor; it's never as urgent. Staying engaged for 6-7 hours rarely happens either unlike real life with it's physical location constraints (which also have a role in memory formation and retrieval)
- 3. The perfect app needs millions of student learning records that account for your specific experience and knowledge. This is not possible. While humans cannot do this either, intuition of teachers is lost with apps.

*Small groups/tutors can provide customised, targeted and long-term feedback which you feel a sense of accountability for responding to according to the research from Bloom, and is largely responsible for why wealth correlates with education with higher attenuation at the top quartile than the differences between the bottom three quartiles - paying for private tutoring really is a cheat to achieving more on grades (and therefore more opportunities), although whether it improves intelligence, is debatable(nobody agrees what intelligence is really, beyond some early G factor work that personally I do not see as that valid).

I think you should be careful using the word "personalized" too - one, it is a popsci buzz word, and two, and consider "adaptive" instead - they have different meanings in the psychology of learning and like I address above, the personal aspect are mostly confined to humans.
If you have a robot or self driving car, you're going to want on device inference for your vision language models.

For video games, being locked to a cloud service means the feature will disappear when the servers are shut down.
Cannot say, scaled images are saved and served from the filesystem, not kept in ram. One possible solution would be to use CDN.
I'm embedded, simple. Changing distro is a big thing after maybe 18 years. It was easier to disable, so far, than it was to fix the apps that failed as snaps. But, I intend to move, when Canonical go all in on snaps and 'disable' just turning them off. I'm suspecting 24.04 might be that point. But it was delayed and I've not had chance to check it out yet.

In some ways the distro is like a part of my identity; it's a personal decision, not a business decision as I'm a home user only now.
It's easy for things to get forgotten about at big companies. But sooner or later someone looking for a promotion will discover it, shut it down and put the saved money part on their CV.
> Download Signal

The one which uses Amazon cloud for everything? I would recommend Matrix instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39415240
Try some of my local poets, Louis MacNeice and Seamus Heaney.
Kaspersky hits back at claims its AI helped Russia develop military drones
Everyone get to Mirroring them now then.
Just work on your own projects two hours before work each day, no need to give up salary.

You'll be amazed at what you can build with consistent effort.
Might there be a size at which it would make sense for multiple houses to group together and pay for a turbine that's big enough to supply all their electricity, rather than one per house like solar panels? (If enough of the local residents feel YIMBY about it, that is.)
Bans in either direction are only a small percentage of accounts. People with large followings have a large disincentive to leave (have to start over), and new users haven't had long to build followings, so most large accounts are the same ones they were before he bought the company.

Musk is not actually a right-wing figure -- he smokes pot, makes electric cars, isn't religious, etc. But he isn't a left-wing figure either, which confuses people who can't contemplate that the same person could simultaneously e.g. support gay marriage and think peculiar pronouns are silly.

The result is that he's more inclined to ban accounts he doesn't like, but what he doesn't like isn't inherently associated with any particular party. And if you look at the "left-leaning" accounts he's suspended, it's the likes of Aaron Rupar and Taylor Lorenz, who... well, here it is:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rupar

They're the sort of accounts that get themselves suspended once there is no longer anything protecting them from getting themselves suspended.
This is a bit sensationalistic of a headline as Google had already previously paved the path to transition from Google Fit to the Health Connect platform, the centralized hub for all health data. It's more secure and allows a wider more diverse suite of apps to integrate into it.

From the article:

>While we’ve deprecated the Google Fit Android API, we’re aiming to turn down the API no sooner than June 30, 2025. This is to give users enough time to switch to Health Connect and continue their service.

Specifically they indicate, as they have in the past, that developers should transition from the Google Fit API to the Health Connect API. The Google Fit app already uses the Health Connect API itself to upload health data to a centralized repository.

The article also mentions no "big updates" since 2022, while I can't gauge what they're qualifying as "big", there have been 20+ app updates since that time frame and there is a major beta release ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... ) that has been in public testing for some time now.
Ah yes, the totally-valid use case of ensuring that a third party has properly compiled source code that you don't have access to. I'm sure this comes up in industry all the time.
I was under the impression that the plural was common in English, but the singular was more common in Spanish. I could certainly be wrong though.
what is considered affordable hardware for running large language models locally today?

I’d say “under $20k” is considered affordable. In comparison, a single H100 server is $250k. At least if you want to run decent models (>70B) at bearable speeds (>1t/s).

Your optimal choice today is Mac Studio with 192GB of unified memory (~$7k). But it will be too slow to run something like llama 400B.
If you have no opportunity to own the fruits of your labour, you are not free. You are a slave.

Economic freedom is freedom.
I would think that they would have discovered and burned all the hydrocarbons, just as our civilization is in the process of doing.
I think they're also showing they don't understand storytelling, character development, or the medium of film.

And that's the important part of their comment
I also applied to them when they posted the exact same thing last month and I think I saw their job posting back in February. Something's definitely up
Yes, the challenge in any formal software verification is dealing with unbounded inputs and compute durations, as enabled by recursive programs. If the code under analysis is straight-line non-reentrant basic logical blocks, the verification is quite trivial indeed. This is vaguely the case for hardware verification, though of course there are complexities introduced by the physical nature of the embedding.
You dont understand communism then, and didnt grow up under such regime.

Most people involved in such projects were far from what you can call communists, not involved with regine, not members of the party (or if they were it was just to be allowed certain positions in the system, literal ticking checkbox on the requirements list), some even secretly hating it and conspiring against it. This reductionism is unnecessary and outright incorrect.

One can claim it was invented in communist East Germany (although the official name was literally German democratic republic), and thats about it.

You also slap 'invented by american capitalists' onto every single invention coming out of US of past 250 years?
Could very well be. Most real world learning is self paced and even the current tools like chatgpt have been great in helping with learning specific things.

They might not be a perfect model in all senses but for people who know how to use them well imo they are spot on.

The only caveat I see is that the person should at the very least understand how these ai tools work to leverage them properly, for example: if you have no idea where to start coding, you can get a roadmap and start working but knowing how chatgpt generates such a roadmap for you might help in optimizing prompts to get the best out of it.

hope this makes sense
If someone asks me to fear/panic/rage over something that is at best speculation as of publication? Yes I will call that FUD and be on my way. Doesn't matter if it's from Arxiv or 4chan.
The US could implement Sortition, but they'd probably want to improve their K-12 system first.
The state ought to have no legal right to compel people to keep records of their private communications.
We do when it's the Hutter prize, otherwise it's easy to cheat.

But sure, it's a constant factor, so if you compress enough data you can always ignore it.